I know what's happening here, because we have it in Orlando. The I-4, not the I5 back in Seattle, cuts the skyscraper part of the city away from a residential area. That area is mostly black, and has been that way for generations. People who want more skyscrapers want to bulldoze the residential area, and are looking for a political opinion that sounds plausible. They say the freeway separates whites from blacks, and that we need to reconnect the two areas.
There are office buildings, and major companies already in the area, including the part of EA that makes Madden. Heck, the Orlando Magic play on the black side of town. The local football club has their stadium on this side.
Black people go into the urban part to party or hang out, and then head home. There is no disconnect by any standard use of observation. I am still told quite often that we need to reconnect the divide, and every single person involved wants to build a giant building. It's purely architects looking for a job.
It's not the black neighborhoods wanting this. I have a friend that runs an architecture firm, and is mostly black owned and run. He knows these neighborhoods really well because politicians and rich people keep wanting to build skyscrapers in the bloody area. I've arranged meetings for us to meet when the Orlando Magic are playing and there's a big party near Lake Eola to watch people walk through the area. We will have students and architects all crying over the terrible racist division.
I get invited to help design stuff because is am a historian/anthropologist and then a designer. Every time I come up with answers, I'm told the only answer is big parks, bulldozing houses, and rich people pretending to be ethnic. They want to destroy one of the oldest black highschools in the state. Wesley Snipes graduated from there. I helped redesign their museum.
It is purely rich people crying racism as they destroy black neighborhoods. Almost every time you read about it, that's what's actually happening.
I know what's happening here, because we have it in Orlando. The I-4, not the I5 back in Seattle, cuts the skyscraper part of the city away from a residential area. That area is mostly black, and has been that way for generations. People who want more skyscrapers want to bulldoze the residential area, and are looking for a political opinion that sounds plausible. They say the freeway separates whites from blacks, and that we need to reconnect the two areas.
There are office buildings, and major companies already in the area, including the part of EA that makes Madden. Heck, the Orlando Magic play on the black side of town. The local football club has their stadium on this side.
Black people go into the urban part to party or hang out, and then head home. There is no disconnect by any standard use of observation. I am still told quite often that we need to reconnect the divide, and every single person involved wants to build a giant building. It's purely architects looking for a job.
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Then how do these people justify talk of a "divide"? I hope it's not because you have to drive on the freeway to cross... then just build a skybridge.
There's regular roads under the freeways. It's easy to walk through.
So in what sense, if any, does the freeway divide anything?
It's not the black neighborhoods wanting this. I have a friend that runs an architecture firm, and is mostly black owned and run. He knows these neighborhoods really well because politicians and rich people keep wanting to build skyscrapers in the bloody area. I've arranged meetings for us to meet when the Orlando Magic are playing and there's a big party near Lake Eola to watch people walk through the area. We will have students and architects all crying over the terrible racist division.
I get invited to help design stuff because is am a historian/anthropologist and then a designer. Every time I come up with answers, I'm told the only answer is big parks, bulldozing houses, and rich people pretending to be ethnic. They want to destroy one of the oldest black highschools in the state. Wesley Snipes graduated from there. I helped redesign their museum.
It is purely rich people crying racism as they destroy black neighborhoods. Almost every time you read about it, that's what's actually happening.